How young people perceive factors that support or prevent understanding between worldviews: perspectives of Finnish lower secondary school pupils

This paper investigated Finnish youth’s perceptions on what supports or prevents understanding between people holding different worldviews, especially religious and non-religious ones. A survey using projective, open-ended questions was conducted examining factors that enhance or damage inter-worldview dialogue among Finnish lower secondary school students (N = 563). The data was analysed using qualitative content analysis. Abu-Nimer’s developmental model of interreligious sensitivity was used as a theoretical framework, but data-driven categories were also created. First, pupils thought of reasons why somebody would wish that religions did not exist. Four categories were created: atheism, confusion about religious expressions, problems related to one’s own worldview, or problems in social interaction. Second, pupils reflected on why somebody would be reluctant to share things about his/her faith. The most important feature addressed here was social deviance, either fear of it or its consequences or actual experiences. Third, pupils suggested ways to create a culture of peaceful dialogue. Most responses referred to changes in attitudes or different kinds of social interaction.     

Performance anxiety: women’s sexed bodies in Pakistan

The nexus of Islam, gender, race and violence has been keenly revisited in some post-9/11 scholarship. The concern over the racialized Muslim male body is justifiable in cases of rendition, torture and the kind of battlefields that mark the War on Terror. However, the sympathetic analysis of the tortured Muslim male body as a permanent and universally vulnerable imaginary has necessarily challenged the framing of sexual politics for Muslim contexts. This bid to shield the vulnerable Muslim male body from Islamophobia and imperialist violence forecloses the notion that Islamist patriarchy and politics can themselves be fundamentally violent in the post-9/11 moment and within the Muslim community. This obscures the range of routine, domestic and normative violent expressions observed by men in Muslim societies. This essay discusses two cases that illustrate the means and methods by which female bodies have been sexed by the narrative of the War on Terror in Pakistan. These cases highlight how the academic efforts that seek to rescue the racialized Muslim male body complicate the struggle of resisting (lay) female bodies.     

论明清世情小说的宗教文化与婚丧习俗

明清世情小说以描写日常生活为主要特点,其中蕴含了丰富的文化内涵,在一定程度上可补经史之不足,《金瓶梅》与《红楼梦》堪为其中代表.二书中涉及宗教文化的描写带有鲜明的世俗化倾向,反映出当时民间信仰与实用功利的关系,同时塑造了不少逐利鄙俗的师尼僧道形象,亦是当时释道逐渐衰落的真实写照.而与人物家庭相关的婚丧习俗也是小说的重要组成部分,书中各种形态的婚事描写、完整周详的丧礼叙述等,均反映出明清时期真实的社会风气.     

"性别"与"水是原则"命题的内涵和实质

“性别”是一个逐渐被认可的研究视角,泰勒斯及其哲学则是一段需要重新解读的历史。从性别角度分析“水是原则”命题我们可以看到,理性力量和生命本能在某种程度上同时存在,是哲学构成的特征。所以,生命本能和生存意志是哲学史研究中一个大有可为的领域。     

湘西观音信仰与沈从文乡土小说

沈从文在其小说中,塑造了一群善良美丽的湘西少女形象,其原型竟是在中国民间普受崇拜的观音.通过研究和实地调查发现,沈从文家乡湘西地区长期以来盛行着富有地域文化特征的观音信仰.这一信仰对沈从文的美学趣味、思想情怀和人文理想有着潜移默化的深刻影响,并影响到其小说艺术处理.与此同时,作家对观音信仰的理性认知态度,对湘西少女命运那悖离了"大团圆"审美心理文化的真实描写和处置,体现了他对民间观音信仰的超越.     

宗教杀戮与文学拯救——论迈克·朗利诗歌中的民族文化情愫

作为第四任“爱尔兰诗人之椅”的荣誉持有者,诗人迈克·朗利在众多当代爱尔兰诗人中独树一帜。通过糅杂于诗歌中的各种民族文化情愫,朗利用细致深沉的笔触表达了对北爱尔兰宗派冲突的批判以及对和平的殷切向往。他一方面痛心于同胞间的冷漠、隔阂、杀戮,另一方面在自身诗歌写作中积极关注家园和时事,以文学参与当代北爱尔兰的民族文化重建,凸显了高度的文学伦理使命感。     

宗教僧侣与世界文化——梁实秋在汉藏教理院演讲佚文考释

20世纪40年代初,梁实秋曾在重庆北碚的汉藏教理院作过一次演讲。这次演讲由该院学僧弘悲记录,后以《宗教僧侣与世界文化》为题发表在1944年出版的《世界佛学苑汉藏教理院特刊》。《宗教僧侣与世界文化》这篇演讲佚文,是梁实秋研究资料中的一则重要史料,它不仅反映了梁实秋对宗教与文化二者关系的独特见解,同时也为我们理解梁实秋"雅舍"期间的文学生活提供了新的史料。     

石头崇拜与中华玉文化的形成

在遥远的旧石器时代，先民们在打造石器的过程中发现了玉，玉石分途，玉便进入了人类的日常生活之中，并逐步成为中华文化的一个重要组成部分。玉的文化功能表现在祭祀、政治、风俗、礼仪等多个方面，具有祭器、权器、礼器和玩器多种文化内涵。中华玉文化的形成，有着原始石头崇拜的深厚背景。     

加强和创新社会管理的法治建设研究

法治是加强和创新社会管理的制度基础。加强和创新社会管理的核心依靠是法治。在“依法治国”的总体框架下,进一步加强和创新社会管理,应积极构建更加有利于促进社会管理创新的法治机制。重点是坚持依法完善惠及全民的社会保障体系,健全社会自治的法律制度,保障城乡基层群众自治活力不断增强,构建有利于夯实加强和创新社会管理的法治基础;健全综治信访和维稳的法治机制,构建矛盾纠纷大调解体系,完善社会治安防控体系,构建多部门合作的工作机制;强化公共安全和应急管理责任,推进网络虚拟社会管理的法治化,确保社会安定有序和谐;强化宗教事务管理的法治机制建设,坚持完善公共安全和应急处突机制,健全食品药品、安全生产监管法治机制,保障公共安全预警防控体系高效运行;促进社会公平正义,确保加强和创新社会管理的各项工作实现依法推进。     

论许地山小说的宗教意识与情爱模式

由于受传统文化的影响,许地山小说一方面暗合了"痴情女子负心汉"的传统情爱模式,揭示了传统文化在人物精神深处的深刻影响及其所导致的悲剧命运;另一方面因为宗教意识的输入,许地山小说转换了"喜新厌旧—沦落天涯—弃妇幽怨"的传统弃妇叙事方式,使其笔下表面上逆来顺受的女主人公内心充满了洞彻人生的智慧和执著生命的坚韧,明显有别于五四运动时期"不是堕落就是回来"的"娜拉"们。许地山小说对于感伤流被的"五四"文学而言,无疑具有十分重要的意义。